Description
In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a reconceptualization of the Left, one united in opposition and resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of interventionist military action.
Leading feminist thinker Judith Butler analyses the different ways we experience war
About the Author
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.
Reviews
Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. -- J. M. Bernstein
Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. Frames of War is an intellectual masterpiece that weds a new understanding of being, immersed in history, to a novel Left politics that focuses on State violence, war and resistance. -- Cornel West
Hers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom. -- Homi K. Bhabha
A trenchant and brilliant book. * Utne Reader *
An impressive and challenging book from one of the leading intellectuals of our time. * Diva *
Judith Butler strongly upholds the tradition of dissenting voices in America, even in the midst of climate of fear and censorship that comes close at times to McCarthyism * Politics and Culture *
Frames of War is an earnest, thought-provoking and uncompromisingly critical work on an issue of singular relevance * Red Pepper *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784782474
Author Judith Butler
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 251g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 14mm
Leading feminist thinker Judith Butler analyses the different ways we experience war
About the Author
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.
Reviews
Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. -- J. M. Bernstein
Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. Frames of War is an intellectual masterpiece that weds a new understanding of being, immersed in history, to a novel Left politics that focuses on State violence, war and resistance. -- Cornel West
Hers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom. -- Homi K. Bhabha
A trenchant and brilliant book. * Utne Reader *
An impressive and challenging book from one of the leading intellectuals of our time. * Diva *
Judith Butler strongly upholds the tradition of dissenting voices in America, even in the midst of climate of fear and censorship that comes close at times to McCarthyism * Politics and Culture *
Frames of War is an earnest, thought-provoking and uncompromisingly critical work on an issue of singular relevance * Red Pepper *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784782474
Author Judith Butler
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 251g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 14mm
